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Books like Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

12 books with a reading profile close to Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong. Practical, inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

by Jonathan Van Ness

Also practical and inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Jonathan Van Ness recounts his path from a small Midwestern town to becoming a public figure in hair styling and television.
2

Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Dolly Alderton chronicles her emergence into adulthood through a series of personal vignettes, recipes, and satirical emails.
3

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

by Jessica Pan

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Jessica Pan, a dedicated introvert who preferred domestic seclusion to social engagement, decided to spend a year acting as an extrovert to see how it changed her life.
4

Dear Dolly

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Dear Dolly catalogs a collection of columns from the author’s tenure as an agony aunt for The Sunday Times Style magazine.
5

Year of Yes

by Shonda Rhimes

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Shonda Rhimes begins this memoir with a realization: despite her professional success creating hit television shows, she spent most of her private life avoiding challenges due to social anxiety and a fear of being seen.
6

Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Matthew McConaughey presents a collection of stories and life filters derived from thirty-six years of his personal diaries.
7

Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

by Paris Hilton

Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, accessible

Paris Hilton details the evolution of her public persona, beginning with her ADHD diagnosis and the subsequent years she spent within the troubled teen industry.
8

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

by Cait Flanders

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Cait Flanders documents her twelve-month experiment of abstaining from all non-essential consumer purchases.
9

What I Know for Sure

by Oprah Winfrey

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Oprah Winfrey collects essays, many drawn from her monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine.
10

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

by Michelle Obama

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

In this follow-up to her autobiography, Michelle Obama outlines the specific habits and mental attitudes she uses to navigate periods of political and personal instability.
11

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

by Ron Howard

Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Ron and Clint Howard provide a synchronized account of their childhoods as prominent child stars in mid-century television.
12

The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

by Amanda Palmer

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Amanda Palmer examines the mechanics of reciprocity and the psychological barriers that prevent individuals from requesting assistance.

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